The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1887-05-29

some extent lcs-,u irunkcn In
town and cities t has ny1riably,
without on exception. increased
drunkenness and crime. Their being
No. license 20 pay, very fellow "Au
can get Jug a. whisky runs HE sa-
loon The difference being they can
-c.l cheaper, and the stun they retail
l. yilct han " hen sold under license.
The state loses IT, revenue which
goes to Increase the profits of the "a
uun keeper.
he traffic goC- out OF the hands Of
decent and responsible men who uh-
Ter exist NJ law. must keep orderly
houses, into tho hands of di-rcuutah..
and Uad men, who are irre-p Jn-ib. .
and keep dives and Gon- and cnbour-
aye The lowe, character OF ID -ipatlOn
, sad drunkenness
Fellow citizens the statement make
that drunkenness in cities and centres
OF population l. increased by operas
tiou Of prohibitory laws ! repeat j.
verified by universal concur NJ. 81
testimony. Nothing but harm results
from TOR ing prohibition on cities.
These rcnters Oipopulatiou vrry mu Ia
more than rural districts, ire ail'ir-
ted with the vices which low from
tie whisky traffic. Prohibition ~ ra-
y4tc- nd increase. them. rcAd
statement from the IhAdClliiu
American. Il pal,rwh,nu have read
for twelve years, u weekly urHal de-
voted to literature aud the arts than
which no ioWna, ia tic country hn- u
let. reputation for truthful and cN.
at statements OF Acts. ! VIII stare .E
~ Of preface 20 hat | read, hat Oh
ihe fourth day Of July last prOmhI.
ton AlI been IN force one year in the
tate OF Iowa, aud Tat statistic show .
Iu-thc elect OF he upcra' ion OF { h.
law during tia time has been col
lectcd ANA verified, and it is TO those
the American cicr- II the statemr n
! read
iowa has prol,bitory lw which
torbid- tho manufacture nd sale Of
iutoXicu'-. yc' ia H., the large cen
tors OF population the traffic urocccd-
vigorously md openly. In twenty
ci-At town, aud cl'iD- the nuWbor OF
-lloou- has increased from 40 TO
9l6. while the .Ar-i sum formerly
paid tor .icru hro added 90 tlv
profits OF the "a ION keepers. Dav.
cuport lose, $4,000. aud burlington
S-GulO in this wa. Tue utmost TINT
is claimed by the friend, OF proMti-
jiou j. hat they have closed thu sa-
loOn- in small towns and county dis
trict-, and even tor this result the
give not the evidence OF official re-
turns, but vague and sweeping c-ti-
mates Tho claim That 5000 saloons
have been closed, and that 300 n-c
kept closed pernaL emily. But
the official figures OF the internal rev.
cnuc department show that Iowa has
sixteen rcctiiicrs Of spirits, and 1920
doalcrslu iutoXIc4uts, so that the rc-
ducuou OF number In he places out-
side the cities cannot have been
great. The total tor the state would
be- less than .UYO if the estimates OF
the prombitionists we're correct.
In Iowa. rs in Kansas and Maine,
prohibition has little efficacy in the
larrc towns and cities, which sui
Ter the most from the evils Of the
liquor traffic. And in that state, ~
elsewhere, i've men viii vote tor pro.
hibi,jon for on VINO VIII pu, a hand
to its enforcement The reduction
OF liquor saloon, uudcra high-licensc
law IN NcbrH.hH and Illinois, l.-
been greater than Iowa undor pr0Al-
bition. At the same TIM there has
been no such stimulus TO lawlcs- es-
iu the enforcement OF high-liccu-c.
aud the assistance OF the Liquor 'ca.
crs has been secured i'm ii, enforce
ucnt.
these arc cold solid facts. They can
not be couIrovcrtcd. The result has
been the same IN cities and towns IN
Maine ana Y crmout a. III iowa. In
these states prohibition wa, CARRIE
by graf malorlue-, yet the law can
not be- enforced. In twenty ght
town aud cities n Iowa, whisky
chops are increased from 40 under ~
license law to 3lo under Just such
prohioitory laW "a oar prohibuon
irindsare trying TO force on our
city. some 80 pon- 1t Is true are laid
to have been closed ~ the country
but the statement d. made ana is trur
that more "a. Oons are closed